SRIC progresses with recommendations for administrative action
Following up on last fall's student survey, members of the Student Rights and Interests Committee (SRIC) recently met with several deans to discuss proposed changes to the infrastructure of the student body, including an improved JhuPortal Web site, potential academic credit for extracurriculars and a reorganization of the Student Government Association (SGA).
Though the SRIC, led by junior SGA President-elect Marc Perkins, has been analyzing the results of the "Student Happiness" survey since last semester, they only recently published their White Paper, which reported the results of the survey, and secured a meeting with the deans to voice their recommendations.
Director of Admissions John Latting and Executive Assistant to the President Jerome Schnydman, as well as Deans Susan Boswell, Paula Burger, William Conley, John Bader and Adam Falk were all present at the meeting.
According to Perkins, the team was frustrated that it took the publication of the White Paper to secure a meeting with the deans, but all involved said that the meeting led to several positive resolutions.
Perkins said that the process of helping shape increasingly positive experiences for Hopkins undergraduates starts with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
To this end, the SRIC proposed a Hopkins summer program for high school students similar to the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) seminar. Hopkins could "target and recruit" high school students with positions of leadership and thus help recreate the "Hopkins stereotype" in a positive light, attracting similar students to the undergraduate applicant pool.
Latting said that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions already targets students who show potential for leadership and involvement.
"Two of the four ratings we use on each applicant are non-academic and have to do with the contribution students can make to the Hopkins community. We are eager to admit and enroll students who make a difference in some way, and we respond aggressively to them when they apply for admission," Latting wrote in an e-mail to the News-Letter.
Though the SRIC, led by junior SGA President-elect Marc Perkins, has been analyzing the results of the "Student Happiness" survey since last semester, they only recently published their White Paper, which reported the results of the survey, and secured a meeting with the deans to voice their recommendations.
Director of Admissions John Latting and Executive Assistant to the President Jerome Schnydman, as well as Deans Susan Boswell, Paula Burger, William Conley, John Bader and Adam Falk were all present at the meeting.
According to Perkins, the team was frustrated that it took the publication of the White Paper to secure a meeting with the deans, but all involved said that the meeting led to several positive resolutions.
Perkins said that the process of helping shape increasingly positive experiences for Hopkins undergraduates starts with the Office of Undergraduate Admissions.
To this end, the SRIC proposed a Hopkins summer program for high school students similar to the Center for Talented Youth (CTY) seminar. Hopkins could "target and recruit" high school students with positions of leadership and thus help recreate the "Hopkins stereotype" in a positive light, attracting similar students to the undergraduate applicant pool.
Latting said that the Office of Undergraduate Admissions already targets students who show potential for leadership and involvement.
"Two of the four ratings we use on each applicant are non-academic and have to do with the contribution students can make to the Hopkins community. We are eager to admit and enroll students who make a difference in some way, and we respond aggressively to them when they apply for admission," Latting wrote in an e-mail to the News-Letter.
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